ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,153, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Photoacoustic sensors and MEMS devices" was invented by Rainer Markus Schaller (Saal a.d. Donau, Germany), Jochen Dangelmaier (Beratzhausen, Germany), Matthias Eberl (Taufkirchen, Germany), Simon Gassner (Munich), Franz Jost (Stuttgart, Germany), Stefan Kolb (Unterschleissheim, Germany) and Horst Theuss (Wenzenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoacoustic sensor includes a first MEMS device and a second MEMS device. The first MEMS device includes a first MEMS component including an optical emitter, and a first optically transparent ...